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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: With a wrathful snort the woman confronted the door, but it was
slammed hastily in her face and the key was turned.
She stood for a few minutes, delivering a frenzied challenge at the panels.
"Come out in deh hall, Mary Murphy, damn yeh, if yehs want a row.
Come ahn, yeh overgrown terrier, come ahn."
She began to kick the door with her great feet. She shrilly
defied the universe to appear and do battle. Her cursing trebles
brought heads from all doors save the one she threatened. Her eyes
glared in every direction. The air was full of her tossing fists.
"Come ahn, deh hull damn gang of yehs, come ahn," she roared at
the spectators. An oath or two, cat-calls, jeers and bits of
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